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Anyone interested in the history of early maps will know Martin Waldseemüller's great 1507 world map, the known copy of which is the oldest surviving map to use the label "America" for any part of the New World. His subsequent work is the subject of the next annual conference of the Philip Lee Phillips Society, cosponsored by the John Carter Brown Library, to be held at the Library of Congress on 17 May 2013. The initial advertisement reads:
Re‐drawing Ptolemy: Martin Waldseemuller’s Geographia, the 1516 Carta Marina and the JCB-Stevens Maps
<p">This conference focuses attention on the radical and wholly new vision of cartography that Martin Waldseemuller and his collaborators put forth in his 1513 edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, the 1516 Carta Marina and the mysterious JCB‐Stevens map, with scholars will concentrating on the sources for Waldseemuller’s post‐1507 production. Former Kislak Fellow Chet Van Duzer and Surehka Davies will both present new research on the encyclopedic knowledge found on the Carta Marina and its sources. One of the highlights of the conference will be the presentation of new and groundbreaking research on the 1513 Ptolemy by John Hessler, Daniel DeSimone, Sylvia Albro and a team of scholars who have been studying Waldseemuller's edition of the Geographia for the last three years.
More details will be forthcoming at the PLP pages on the LC website, which contain records and videos of previous conferences. See you there!
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